1 thought

A school work extended. I thought I'd experiment with some cool techniques I had learned lately, like liquid simulations in Maya and tracing text in C4D. 


ocean mood from Reetta Saturo on Vimeo.

RDW in Shanghai

Setting up our mocap studio in the exhibition hall.

One of the greatest experiences of my studies in Metropolia happened when I got to attend the Radical Design Week at Shanghai as part of my university's representing team. We were a group of nearly 30 people, students and teachers from the field of culture and creative industries doing an exhibition at Donghua University. With my animation teacher and a fellow classmate we set up a mocap workshop Tai chi for beginners. We had only a week of practising the mocap software behind us so it was a bit unnerving. At some point came the idea to test how our system could handle the capturing and tracking the movements of two people.

step to fly

Trying out the Hair&Fur in Max.

spheres boom

I wanted to experiment with Reaktor in 3ds Max. I used some boolean operations modelling the spheres, then a voronoi script to fracture them.

For the love of sandwiches

At school we've been working in groups making short animation films. Ours is a love story between two sandwiches that come to life at a breakfast table. After months it's finally coming together, a whole two minutes, more or less. Now it's just last minute re-rendering some bits and sound mastering and somehow forever delaying it. It's a first for everyone, which is not actually unbelievable but I've grown quite fond of our story and characters, they are sweet and simple. I've been mainly responsible for a chubby character that makes and eats the breads, all unaware of the drama that's going on on his plate. It's been exhausting at times, especially the skinning process that could well continue indefinitely for me if it weren't for deadline. I can't believe I made a fully functional rig for the legs even though the cameras just show him from the waist up, sitting behind the table mostly. The setbacks have made me so much more careful! I'm so glad though to have it over and done with soon. Time to move on.

Here's a little making-of from my part. (Geometry exploding at 00:28, there's a winning moment there..)

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